Fifteenth hacknight – 13 participants. No speaker this week; a working session. Breakout groups: City of Toronto development application scraper – Gabe Exploring geospatial data, finding correlations between voter turnout and other things – Ushnish Government website plain language audit / report card – Matthew Thanks to Lighthouse Labs for hosting us, and for sponsoring[…]
Fourteenth hacknight – 20 participants Speaker: Michelle Senayah from The Laneway Project and Open Streets TO Presentation: “Rethinking Toronto’s Public Space” Things to check out: The Laneway Project Open Streets TO YIMBY (Yes In My Backyard) – October 31, 2015 – CivicTechTO will have a table there! AccessHack – October 23 to November 6, 2015 ELNstudio 2015[…]
The Toronto budget is confusing, but it doesn’t need to be. Civic Tech Toronto’s Toronto Budget Workgroup in collaboration with BetterBudgetTO is rethinking how citizens debate, research and demystify the annual City of Toronto budget. We’ve got some solid ideas that require your invaluable input, but you have to show up to find out what[…]
Thirteenth hacknight – 18 participants Things to check out: Dollars and votes: How fundraising has shaped the federal election campaign by Leon Lukashevsky YIMBY (Yes In My Backyard) – October 31, 2015 – CivicTechTO will have a table there! AccessHack – October 23 to November 6, 2015 ELNstudio 2015 – November 7, 2015 (Discount Code: FRIENDSOFCA15) Toronto Public[…]
Twelfth hacknight – 15 participants Presenter: Iris Ko Breakout groups: Toronto Budget Project – Henrik Scraping orders-in-council – Alex Thanks to Design Cofounders for hosting us, and to ThoughtWorks for dinner!